Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-06-30
OUR BEST EVERY DAY.
"Any Thing That Is Worth Doing 1t All,
Ia Worth Doing Well"

ANY Thing That Is worth Doing oe ALL
Is Worth Doing Well"
Our best every day. Is this too much
to demand of ourselves? Do we feel
that it is too much of 4 strain to be al
ways at concert pitch. that while we
are willing now and then to do some
thing tremendous. to put forth a squirt
and make spring forward. yet such
an impulse can not be expected of us
every day?
Well. yes, perhaps that is just what
we do think in our Utmost hearts. We
know that we are careless about de-
tails. that we do not put on our Sunday
gowns on Saturday, nor wear our best
go-to-meeting bonnets when we run in
to a neighbOr's for half-hom's chat in
the twilight. We confess that we give
way to transient fits of irritability. and
succumb to the blues, when nobody
is at home except John. dear
old fellow, and nobody can
be hurt by our little tempers and tenn
pests except Susy and the children.
Why, we wouldn't think of speaking to
our partners in business. nor to the
man next door. as we speak to our own
wives and husbands ut our own break
fast tables. going off respectively to
our home occupations or the cares of
The Office with a little sore spot in the
heart which aches all day. or frets like
q hair shirt, all because self-cOntrOl
was not worth while, in our view, for
Just our own people.
The person who succeeds in life is
the person who does not take that
course. The truly lovable man or
woman takes such pains to be always
lovable that habit has become a second
nature. The home manner is sweeter
than the society manner. The gracious
air is worn for the family circle as GER
tainly and as easily as for the room
full of Indifferent acquaintance. The
company gown may be cos;lier than
the home costume. but it shall not be
heater. prettier or more becoming. The
true wisdom is to be ut ones best every
day.
I'M very suggestive little essay bear
ing the significant title: BLESSED be
Drudgery." w. c. Ganuett says:
''Drudgery." by which he means simply
doing ones best, ones level best
pardon the slang-every time. sis the
gray angel of success. Look at the
leaders in the professions, the solid
men in business, the master workmen
who begin as poor boys and end by
building town to house their factory
hands. they are drudges Of the single
aim-'One thing 1 do Mr. Maydole.
the hammer maker of Central New
York, was an artist. Yes said he. !
have made hammers for twenty-eight
years. Well, then. You ought to make
a pretty good hammer by this time
No, SIR was the answer, i never
made pretty good hammer make
the best hammer made in the United
States"
If we have any thing to do it is worth
while to do it in the best way. The
editor is always on the q.i rire that
the number on which he is now a:
work may surpass any number that he
ever sent out in his life. The minis ter
forgets the sermons of last week in his
endeavor to preach straigh. into the
souls of his people to-day. The
pedestrians anxiety is to beat his past
record. The housekeeper is not con-
tent with having cleaned house last
year. She is doing it over again now.
and more thoroughly than ever.
If we are serving the Master. doing
our best for Him every day. He will
not say to us, sadly: Il have some
what against you You have left your
6rst love" They do not leave their